French War Films and National Identity
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French War Films and National Identity By Noah McLaughlin

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Table of Contents

List of Figures

ix

Preface

xi

Reconnaissance

1

Film and History

4

Theory: The Toolbox Approach

6

Strategies

7

Chapter 1: Literary Appropriation

13

J’Accuse: New Uses for Old Verses

16

Une affaire de femmes: Adapting the Past for the Present

32

Making Connections

53

Chapter 2: Allegory

57

La Grande Illusion : Chimeras of Equality

60

Les Visiteurs du soir: Dreaming the Occupation

77

In Search of a New Mythology

95

Chapter 3: Myth

99

La Bataille du rail: “The Mythic Film of the Resistance”

104

The Battle of Algiers: History as Camouflage

116

Distortions and Advancements

131

Chapter 4: Artificial Myth

135

L’Armée des ombres: Melvillian Resistancialism

139

Le Chagrin et la pitié: Seek Your Own Truth

157

Legacies of May 1968

174

Chapter 5: Experiments in History

179

Laissez-passer: New History and Old Myths

182